Show Notes

• A writer reads her original personal essay about the moment she knew her marriage couldn't survive — a business trip, a broken collarbone, and a husband who refused to take their three-year-old son to the hospital
• Host Steph and the guest discuss what it means to heal from a relationship you didn't initially recognize as traumatic, and why recovery is anything but linear
• The impossible calculus of divorce when children are involved — staying feels wrong, but leaving means they're with the other parent without you there
• Why the essay's ending resonated so deeply with readers: the radical honesty of saying I am not yet strong at the broken places
• The particular isolation of high-conflict divorce, and why community — even an anonymous one — can be a lifeline

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